Flowdan – ‘Serious Business’ EP [Hyperdub]


Excellent solo plate from Flowdan (Flow Dan?) here, released on Hyperdub last month, continuing on with the label’s stunning ten year anniversary releases. It couldn’t be more aptly named, as there’s not a phone-in moment on Serious Business, just proper badman MC work from one of the scene’s finest mic men, instantly recognisable from his dark and menacing tones. We…

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Montana Limited Edition: ‘Style Wars’ Spray Can


It was only two months ago that we were blessed with the opening of the Montana Colors store in Sydney. It’s a much needed space in a city where paint is hard to come by outside of a select few stores, generally overpriced and sometimes dished out by a human server with a serious elitism complex. I’ve often felt that…

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‘Asphalt Chronicles #1 – Manila’ – A Kevin Couliau Photographic Publication


Just launched from photographer Kevin Couliau comes Asphalt Chronicles, a new independent publication showcasing pick-up basketball across the world through imagery. Couliau is an amazing photographer and his love of the game has seen him photographing it in more than fifty countries across the globe since 2004. Each limited issue of Asphalt Chronicles will focus on a different region, exhibiting Couliau’s photographs in…

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‘In The Heat Of The Night’ @ Snugg In Brixton – 5.7.14 [LDN]


Our favourite residency has rolled round once again, and we’re up to the third instalment of In The Heat Of The Night at Snugg in Brixton. Jimmy Monsta Funk takes over the venue with cohort; wholly organic, no hype, just vibes for a quality few hours of top notch record selection. If nothing else, you’ve got to give them props…

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VHS Head – ‘Persistence Of Vision’ 2LP [Skam Records]


There’s a tragic school of thought that properly composed electronica (specifically music often tied to that horrible term IDM) essentially spearheaded downwards when Richard D. James stopped releasing as Aphex Twin. These beliefs can only belong to those people who’ve slept on the ever-wonderful Skam catalogue, and more importantly the work of VHS Head. VHS Head is the moniker of…

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London Migrants Make Comics


Through collaboration with Refugee Week and My Journey, seven migrants to London have produced illustrations to share their journeys as refugees through their own eyes. Pleasantly surprised about the varying formats, lengths and most importantly message. Thought I knew what I was in store for, but the underlying message of getting “swallowed up” by the new home city and the…

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NTS Awkward Movements Show – 19.6.14


Archive just gone up from last week’s Awkward Movements show on NTS Radio, and despite a bit of a moody schizophrenic start we hit stride pretty quickly dropping some of favorite plates and tapes of the moment. That amazing Jon Hassell remix 12″ on All Saints featured twice, as did the Rajasthan Street Music 2xLP on Sublime Frequencies, both must-have…

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‘Return Of The Rudeboy’ Exhibition @ Somerset House – Until 25.08.14 [LDN]


Just seen the details around this exhibition, had to share it as it looks amazing. Earlier this month, Return of the Rudeboy kicked off its ten-week residency at Somerset House, celebrating ‘rudie‘ style culture in proper form. Birthed in Jamaica, Rudeboy (note the capital ‘R’) culture was integrated in to London during the ’70s and ’80s, defined by attitude, and identified through…

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Charles Hayward – ‘Smell Of Metal’ 2×12″ [Kemal]


An absolutely fantastic release this, pairing a label that I feel I’ll come to love and an artist I need to dig deeper to find more from. Charles Hayward, as a founding member of This Heat, has boasted his own following and stamp on the experimental scene since the band’s inception int he seventies. After This Heat he continued to…

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